I can clear all of act 1 on my monk on Inferno. It's tricky sometimes, and I always do my best to get the treasure finding buff. I find it's way more difficult to kill shit with other people since controlling the mobs and champion packs becomes an issue. I ran into act 2 yesterday and died almost immediately to just two regular mobs being on me. :| Not looking forward to that.

Its badly balanced. For example on my barb i can clear full act1 inferno without skiping any champs packs. i went to act2 and got one shooted by white mobs. game should not allow you to kill butcher(and even get achi for speed kill) and then insta gib u on next white mob. its a flaw in a desing.

And about loot. dont farm loot cus its freaking usless. farm gold and go to ah. full clear of act1 will net you prolly around 300k wich would be quite plenty for upgrades in every slot beside wep.clearing act1 for me takes 1hr45min to 2hrs depends on what chapms you run in. and i mean clear act1 dont go for buthcer, hunt down champs and heroes. if you play barb for example hunt gear with resistance. i am half way to the goal of 800 resi and now i can take down some mobs in act2 but still farming act1 for gold and gold only

We didnt "rush". i can farm act 1/2 at Inferno, but only the white mobs.

Do YOU play Inferno?

My Gear:
Monk
Weapon is a 2 hand Staff with 766dps.
i Have 40k life. 47%avoidance68%dmg reduce through Armor.
16829dps. 94 resistance to all dmg sources which is the max, 25%.

Even Method was forced to Farm this chest because Elite/Champions are not Hard, those mobs are ust unkillable. Its Impossible, not more, not less.
Some yellow blue mobs are killable, but ONLY which these boni:

More Life
Vortex
Fast

This boni are no problem, but as on of these show up, no way

Immortal
Jail
Arcane
Fire/Magma
Firechains
blocker+ice

Its just Impossible.

And here starts the Problem, these mobs dropp the best Gear, but you cant kill them.
Even method keeps avoiding them, watch the stream.

"Hell Farming".
Rofl. yeah i guess lvl 52 items with 150dps are great for inferno.

I reached inferno yesterday and play a Barbarian.
I, as a mostly hell geared Barb have: almost 48k HP, 70%+ reduction from armor, and 100+ in almost all resistances (and btw, i don't know where you've taken that "25% cap" from, 'cause i have at least over 30% reduction, with the resistance shout i reached 50% fire reduction at some point.) and with my current build i have a little less than 12K Dps.
When i stepped in inferno yesterday night with my buddy (we're a two man team, Barb and DH) everything hittted us like a truck.
My DH friend was almost 2shotted by zombies, and of course we had to run and restart the game a couple of times because of some nearly impossible blues/yellows. I have to say, I thought i was prepared for this, but things hit so hard in inferno, that i tought i had to reroll to a wizard, or something to try to progress, or to at least be able to farm some gear for my barb.
But then i saw that solo butcher kill from a barb. With 5/5 nephalem valor. Damn. if he can do it, so can I. Don't throw in the towel, try to come up with a different build, browse the ah for some affordable inferno gear (you can find decent "starter" pieces for as low as 200K gold, wich is by no means much if you can farm hell).
The point is, that is in no way impossible. I managed to solo a couple rares as a Barbarian, with limited kiting, and without hitting the enrage.
It balls hard, but not impossible.

Keep farming act 3,4 in Hell difficulty till you get satisfied with your gear, and that is what happens to you when you rush through all difficulties then you QQ about inferno elites/champions packs.

to hell with farming act 3/4 hell, just farm hell ponyland

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Mobs with 2 Million Health, and you kill them before the 3 minute enrage starts with NO DPS?

I solo most packs in act I Inferno on my mostly tank monk with about 7k dps on the char screen (only the melee killer combos jailer/vortex/fire chains etc or extreme hardhitters get left out by me). I only bought a weapon with nearly 600 DPS from the AH for about 50k, the rest of my gear are hell rares and 1 or 2 inferno rares. Enrage on the packs was only a problem the first time I ever entered inferno and still had a 270 dps weapon.

So you are either extremely undergeared or you should think of some new specs or gaming strategies to maximise dps uptime. IMO uptime is the most important thing in inferno, and there is no stat for it, you just have to have the practice or "skill" for it.

How is that possible and 30k dps?? I have 4,7k dps, I'm using 2 1-handed crossbow with 430 and 510 damage per second each one.

As far as I've tested (As a Barb) and from what I've been told, there's almost no point in Dual-wielding. The second weapon doesn't really add as much as you'd expect it would. I've got a friend I run Act 1 Inferno with that's at 20k DPS with a 2hander Bow. Your Dex is also REALLY low. I'd say your health is higher than it needs to be as well, at least for act 1. I'm running with 32k as a Barb and my friend runs with 22k as a DH.

Probably a little undergeared as I've only run Act I once so far. Waiting for a friend to log on before I bother going back. More loot ftw.

I've gotta say though, after getting 2-3 pieces of gear from Inferno, Act I quickly became a massive faceroll. I only get killed by packs with stupid combo's like Desecrator Invulnerable Minions Frozen Waller or some crap.

How is that possible and 30k dps?? I have 4,7k dps, I'm using 2 1-handed crossbow with 430 and 510 damage per second each one.

as far as i know having a quiver in your off-hand can be alot better then 2 1-handers. Get a decent quiver and use your best crossbow in the main hand. Having 2 1-handers gives you 15% attack speed if i remember, but you still change between using them.. so you will also deal dmg with your low dmg crossbow which is quite bad..
For inferno i would say a 2-handed is best.. as you will have to kite alot and don't need the attack speed, but bigger hits.
Also you have way too much vit exchange some of it for dexterity

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All 3 of us can farm the first 2 acts with no problem at all. Act 3 is solo-farmed up to big fat bastard (forgot it's name) but it's hard as hell since Soul Rippers one-shot you if they tongue you. (In Act3 Inferno, even the little imps one shot you so it's fun).
Boosted our Monk/Barb friends to act 4 but they are to "stupid" to actually come with us. Met monks/barbs in public games that could actually play decent tho.

(I say stupid because they couldn't even play WoW properly or listen to what other tell them)

as far as i know having a quiver in your off-hand can be alot better then 2 1-handers. Get a decent quiver and use your best crossbow in the main hand. Having 2 1-handers gives you 15% attack speed if i remember, but you still change between using them.. so you will also deal dmg with your low dmg crossbow which is quite bad..
For inferno i would say a 2-handed is best.. as you will have to kite alot and don't need the attack speed, but bigger hits.
Also you have way too much vit exchange some of it for dexterity

As far as I've tested (As a Barb) and from what I've been told, there's almost no point in Dual-wielding. The second weapon doesn't really add as much as you'd expect it would. I've got a friend I run Act 1 Inferno with that's at 20k DPS with a 2hander Bow. Your Dex is also REALLY low. I'd say your health is higher than it needs to be as well, at least for act 1. I'm running with 32k as a Barb and my friend runs with 22k as a DH.

Probably a little undergeared as I've only run Act I once so far. Waiting for a friend to log on before I bother going back. More loot ftw.

I've gotta say though, after getting 2-3 pieces of gear from Inferno, Act I quickly became a massive faceroll. I only get killed by packs with stupid combo's like Desecrator Invulnerable Minions Frozen Waller or some crap.

Later on DHs start doing crazy crits. Maxed out I have 65k dps with Sharpshooter maxed out. Criting for around 120-150k with Impales. Problem is that some combinations just are not worth the time and effort. Plan to get act 2 done tonight and farm act 3. Seems like a solid place to farm with lots of room to kite and funnel.

As a demon hunter that just finished killing the spider queen in act 1 for the first time last night, I can tell you that I'm sitting at right below 20K DPS, around 27K health, and with ~1200 Dex on my gear from natural stats and gemming. You shoud try to get a quiver, and a weapon with a socket. The red gems in your weapons can boost your DPS substantially. Most of your other gear doesn't have sockets either, which I think is hurting you quite a bit.